Michael O'Donovan

Why do municipalities wait for things to collapse before fixing them? Because Emergency procedures can then be used and the contracts given to preferred providers without tendering and no transparency. Sign the petition tinyurl.com/gatvol

How direct representation in local government was captured open.substack.com/pub/maodonovan…

@JoburgMPD @Abramjee @CityofJoburgZA @DadaMorero @GP_CommSafety @MTshwaku @PublicSafetyMMC @SAPoliceService @Jaca_Patrick @CoJPublicSafety Then why do we still have election posters from the ruling coalition still up?

#JMPD ByLaw enforcement unit officers removed illegal posters & signage across the city as part of ongoing by-law enforcement operations. The public is reminded that the installation of posters & signage without approval is unlawful & may result in penalties. To install signage or posters legally, applications must be submitted to the City of Johannesburg Department of Development Planning Outdoor Advertising Unit. Compliance with municipal by-laws helps keep the city safe, orderly, and visually clean. #BuyaMthethoManjeNamhlanje #SaferJoburg #JoburgByLaws

Democratic Alliance 2026 prospects in Johannesburg: Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory (again) open.substack.com/pub/maodonovan…

@HenMazzig An association of ethnic cleansers?

A representative for Israel's public Kan network, which broadcasts Eurovision, shared which countries stood tall against the exclusion of Israeli artists: 🇦🇹 Austria 🇩🇪 Germany 🇬🇷 Greece 🇲🇹 Malta 🇨🇾 Cyprus Thank you to these countries, that remember the purpose of Eurovision is UNITY!

@AmichaiChikli Surely it is the conduct of Israeli government that denigrates this heritage. Following Hitlers model they have become the new racial supremacists.

Chaim Herzog was not only the President of Israel. He was Ireland’s son. Born in Belfast, raised in Dublin, educated at Alexandra College and Wesley College, fluent in Irish and Hebrew, a standout in rugby and cricket, and Ireland’s junior bantamweight boxing champion. A child of Irish pride and moral courage. At the age of twenty-two, when Europe was sinking into darkness, Herzog chose action. He joined the British Army to fight the Nazis. He landed in Normandy, fought through Belgium and the Netherlands, crossed the Rhine, and entered Bergen Belsen, where he encountered starvation, mass death, and the ruins of humanity left behind by fascist cruelty. Weeks later, he helped identify the body of Heinrich Himmler and interrogated senior SS officials. This Irishman confronted evil and helped to defeat it. And now @RayMcAdam and the Dublin City Council advance a move to erase his name from Herzog Park. Before it is an insult to Israel, Before it is a wound to the Jewish people, it is a betrayal of Ireland and of every Irishman and woman who ever stood against tyranny. A moral collapse. Fifty years ago, on the 10th of November 1975, the boy from Dublin stood at the United Nations and exposed a great lie. He ended with these words: “For us, the Jewish people, this resolution is based on hatred, falsehood, and arrogance. Hitler would have felt at home listening to the proceedings in this forum.” And today, once again, the same winds of hatred and falsehood rise. Hitler and Mohammed Sinwar cheer your choice from hell’s deepest abyss, @RayMcAdam, while Chaim Herzog looks upon you from above with sorrow, for a city that has lost its way.

To celebrate (presumably) the #G20SouthAfrica Johannesburg City Parks and JMPD are observing open gunfire at West Park cemetery. It must be in honour of someone very important as they have not applying the normal restrictions on public gun play. #G20lipstick

In another innovation for #G20SouthAfrica Johannesburg has introduced new traffic calming measures. Collaboration between City Power (responsible for structural changes) and JRA introduced the 'anti-speed hump' across the city. A prototype is illustrated below. #G20lipstick.

City of Johannesburg has adopted an innovative, low cost, approach to greening the city. Essentially just allow open spaces and roads to merge. #G20SouthAfrica #G20lipstick

Massive electricity outage across Johannesburg coinciding with the first proper rain. Guess the weather did not get Cyrils memo on dressing the city up for the dignitaries #G20SouthAfrica #G20lipstick

Johannesburg's City Power introduces automatic Day/Night switches for street lights. #G20SouthAfrica #G20lipstick

@CityofJoburgZA Also post your issue on Instagram, twitter etc. with the tag #G20SouthAfrica and #G20lipstick. That way you are more likely to get a response while acknowledging that the campaign is basically putting "lipstick on a pig" for the G20 delegates.

We shift from intention to high-impact delivery. The CEO-City Cleanup marks the defining moment where citizens, corporate leaders, and community structures stand together to declare: Johannesburg deserves better, and we are making it happen. Be present. Be part of history. Help identify priority hotspots in the Inner City and Soweto: · Post a photo. · Include the exact location. Tag us using #CEOsCleanUpJoburg. Your action drives immediate deployment and measurable results. #TheJoburgWeAllWant #CEOsCleanUpJoburg

#G20SouthAfrica All visitors should take a look at this Daily Maverick post to better understand more about CoJ. I guess many of the professional tourists will reject it as "bourgeouis" as she does not point to the role of tenderpreneurs and politicians youtu.be/Njh1RNCW6RA?si…

Hidden subsidies and Johannesburg's governance failures: open.substack.com/pub/maodonovan…

Increasing tariffs reduce municipal revenue open.substack.com/pub/maodonovan…

City of Johannesburg fails to direct indigent benefits to the poor. open.substack.com/pub/maodonovan…

@kalliekriel @realDonaldTrump There is strong evidence that Trump's tariffs were created using an AI like ChatGPT. Heaven help us when the "most powerful person in the world" cant rely on real intelligence in his own administration.

ANC leaders and the ANC-led government must be held directly responsible for the fact that the United States and President @realDonaldTrump has punished South Africa by imposing significantly higher import tariffs on the country than on most other nations. South Africa and its people are now reaping the bitter fruits of the ANC leadership’s reckless policies and provocative actions toward the United States. These ANC leaders have placed their own and their party’s ideology and interests above those of the people of South Africa. Efforts to prevent the country and its people from being punished by advocating for a change in direction in South Africa were undermined by those who dismissed the United States’ grievances as a misunderstanding based on “misinformation.” Consequently, these denialists must also bear responsibility for the current crisis. To have avoided these punative measures, it was necessary to openly identify the problems and find solutions through a change in direction in South Africa. @afriforum will therefore continue to work toward such a change, as it is the only way the United States’ punative measures can be lifted. This change in direction requires that South Africa protect the property and human rights of all its people (including Afrikaners and other minority communities) and that the interests of South Africans be prioritized by ensuring the country follows a truly neutral foreign policy. businesstech.co.za/news/trending/…

Check out my latest article: Johannesburg increasingly relies on "unearned income" linkedin.com/pulse/johannes… via @LinkedIn

Municipal governance in South Africa open.substack.com/pub/maodonovan…

Governance failure in Johannesburg: open.substack.com/pub/maodonovan…